‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators To Make New ‘Star Wars’ Film Series

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‘Game of Thrones’ creators will make Star Wars movies because the franchise can never end

“Game of Thrones” showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have a plan for their post-Westeros life. Disney announced Tuesday that the two have been tasked with writing and directing a new series of Star Wars movies, ensuring that there will never be a shortage of stories set in a galaxy far, far away.

According to Variety, the movies will be separate from both the Skywalker narrative that set the original franchise in motion and the trilogy that Rian Johnson was gifted after he delivered “The Last Jedi” in December with minimal drama. For those keeping score at home, that means we have the second spinoff, “Solo,” and “Episode IX” to look forward to this year and next, plus the third stand-alone installment, slated for 2020, the Rian Johnson trilogy and the as-yet-unquantified series that Weiss and Benioff will helm.

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